Regarding some sounds when leaving as being bad luck

Question

If some one calls you from the back or when you are going out suppose you got little hit, say, by a door. I heard, if you don;t sit for a second to pass a moment, which could bring you bad luck/accident, you would face the bad luck/accident. Are these true? Can you use the Quran and the hadiths about these?.

Answer

Praise be to Allaah.

What you have heard is not correct, rather that is a kind of
tatayyur (superstitious belief in bird or other omens) or regarding seeing
and hearing certain things as being bad luck. This is the way of the
ignorant and the mushrikeen, who used to let such things keep them from
doing what they wanted. Allaah criticized them for that and said
(interpretation of the meaning):

“Verily, their evil omens are with Allaah but most of them
know not”

[al-A’raaf 7:131]

“They (Messengers) said: Your evil omens be with you! (Do
you call it evil omen) because you are admonished? Nay, but you are a people
Musrifoon (transgressing all bounds by committing all kinds of great sins,
and by disobeying Allaah)”

[Yaa-Seen 36:19]

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
forbade superstitious belief in omens and said that it is a kind of shirk
(associating others with Allaah) that detracts from Tawheed, because
superstition is something that the Shaytaan uses to create fear. It is
mentioned in several ahaadeeth that it is forbidden, such as the following:

The hadeeth of Abu
Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There is no ‘adwaa
[transmission of infectious disease without the permission of Allaah], no
tiyarah [superstitious belief in bird omens].” Narrated by al-Bukhaari,
5757; Muslim, 102.

It was narrated by Abu Dawood (3910), and al-Tirmidhi (1614)
who classed it as saheeh, from Ibn Mas’ood (may Allaah be pleased with him)
in a marfoo’ report: “Tiyarah is shirk, tiyarah is shirk,” but there is no
one among us (who does not feel such things) but Allaah takes it away by
means of tawakkul (putting one's trust in Him).

The words “but there is no one among us (who does not feel
such things) but Allaah takes it away by means of tawakkul (putting one's
trust in Him)” are the words of Ibn Mas’ood, not of the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him).

What this means that there is no one among us who does not
some superstitious feelings in his heart, but Allaah takes them away from
his heart by means of trust in Him and delegating one’s affairs to Him.

It was also narrated that
Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of
Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “There is no
‘adwaa [transmission of infectious disease without the permission of Allaah]
and no tiyarah [superstitious belief in bird omens], but I like fa’l.” They
said, “What is fa’l?” He said, “A good word.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5756;
Muslim, 2220.

These ahaadeeth clearly indicate that tiyarah (superstition)
is haraam and is a kind of shirk, because it means that the heart is
attached to something other than Allaah. The people of the Jaahiliyyah
believed that it could bring them some benefit or ward off some harm if they
did whatever was dictated by their superstitions, and it was as if they were
associating others with Allaah. So the Lawgiver cancelled that and
demonstrated it to be false when He told them that it has no effect on
bringing benefits or warding off harm.

Once this is established, if any such thing happens to you,
then you have to fear Allaah and put your trust in Him, and seek His help
and never pay any attention to it. You should handle the matter by doing
what the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) enjoined,
as narrated by Abu Dawood (3919) with a saheeh isnaad from ‘Urwah ibn ‘Aamir
(may Allaah be pleased with him) who said: Mention of tiyarah was made in
the presence of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him), and he said: “The best of it is fa’l (optimism, belief in good
omens) and it should not prevent a Muslim from going ahead (with his plans).
If any one of you sees something that he dislikes, let him say. ‘Allaahumma
laa ya’ti bi’l-hasanaat illa anta wa laa yadfa’ al-sayi’aat illa anta, wa
laa hawla wa laa quwwata illa bika (O Allaah, no one brings good things
but You and no one wards off bad things but You, and there is no power and
no strength except with You).’”

Imam Ahmad narrated in his Musnad (2/220), and
al-Albaani classed as saheeh in al-Saheehah (1065) the hadeeth of
‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Amr ibn al-‘Aas (may Allaah be pleased with him): “Whoever
lets tiyarah (superstition) stop him from doing something is guilty of
shirk.” They said, “What is the kafaarah (expiation) for that?” He said, “To
say: Allaahumma la khayra illaa khayruka wa laa tayra illaa tayruka wa
laa ilaaha ghayruka (O Allaah, there is no good except Your good, no
birds except Yours, and there is no god beside You).”

It should also be noted that tiyarah will not harm the one
who ignores it and goes ahead and does what he wants to do. But as for the
one who does not sincerely put his trust in Allaah and who gives in to the
Shaytaan and his waswaas (whispers), he will be punished by falling into the
thing that he dislikes, because he has turned away from faith in Allaah.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Whatever of good
reaches you, is from Allaah, but whatever of evil befalls you, is from
yourself.”